IES Virxe do Mar

On June, 31 the second volume of the EduCO2cean Magazine was published online. In the second volume of the Magazine, coordinated by the IES Virxe do Mar, among other scientific and didactic articles, two of them adress the aspect of the sustainability of some activities of the EduCO2cean Project. Specifically, the susteinability of the International Camp and Teacher’s seminar. The first of the articles in this line was written by the Climántica-IES…

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The Canadian magazine Green Teacher offered the Climántica program, led by IES Virxe do Mar, a collaboration as a consortium. The reached agreement is that this educational program would identify innovative experiences so that the journal can validate and publish them as a collaboration between the two organizations. Within the framework of this collaboration, the published volume in June 2018 includes the article Shellfish and Climate Change Research. In this article it…

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On Thursday, March 12,  in the frame of the Cultural Week, the students of the Climántica’s scholar science group developed the practical experiences gathered in the didactic material about global change published under the EduCO2cean-Erasmus+ program, as well as the acquired knowledge from the investigation on the DNA which was directed by the Dr. Carracedo. These students, coordinated by the teacher Raquel Troitiño, developed practices to show the ocean stratification, the ocean acidification…

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The EduCO2cean Magazine, coordinated by the IES Virxe do Mar, has started its activity with the publication of the first volume. This Magazine will publish original investigations from throughout the world dealing with scientific and didactic aspects developed during the EduCO2cean project in order to allow the dissemination of the works of the research community. The main sections of the Magazine are: Editorial, Scientific Dissemination Articles, Didactic Dissemination Articles and Reviews.  …

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During the last weeks, the Unit 1 Didactics of Anthropogenic Global Change in Marine Ecosystems, coordinated by the IES Virxe do Mar, started to be applicated at class. This unit has been published in the portal the 30th of January and can be downloaded here. Didactics of Global Change in Marine Ecosystems is the first block of curricular content published by the EduCO2cean-Erasmus + project. Its contents include the four main topics related…

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  The International Journal of Environmental and Science Education has just published an article with the scientific and didactic analysis of some of the experiences developed under the EduCO2cean project: the Young Scientist project (Cockels recruiment factors on Testal beach) and the didactic laboratory practices about Anthropogenic Global Change which have been developed during the International Youth Campus. This article includes a methodological proposal in which students collaborate with scientists in order…

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On Monday, January 8, IES Virxe do Mar joined the 35 students who signed up as volunteers to train citizens about EduCO2cean-Erasmus content by leaning on laboratory practices. These students will be formed between the morning and afternoon sessions on Mondays. On this first day they have done practices to simulate the stratification of the ocean, and their influence on the rise of nutrients from the bottom to the surface.…

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On November 30, the educational team of EduCO2cean-Erasmus + convened a meeting for students interested in participating in the project during the present school year. To that meeting held during the classes break, more than 70 students were present and completed the capacity of Álvaro de las Casas venue. Initiatives have been presented in three areas: Oral communications of global change to citizenship based on laboratory practices. The students who attended were…

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The IES Virxe do Mar formed on the last two Saturdays of September teachers, from 10 secondary schools associated to EduCO2cean within the framework of the European strategic alliance for innovation EduCO2cean-Erasmus +. This course was framed in the permanent training plan of the professors of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) through the collaboration that IES Virxe do Mar maintains with the SEPA-Interea competitive reference research group through Climántica. The…

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This video contains a brief summary of the presentation of the three short films titled: 1) MACC, 2) The other reality, 3) There is no planet B. The remaining time of the video collects in its integrity the musical Tragedy. The musical, whose booklet was developed within the tasks of IES Virxe do Mar in EduCO2cean-Erasmus+, was directed by the authors of the text, Irene Maquieira and Carlos Maquieira, with the coordination…

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IES Virxe do Mar, as a member responsible for the international campus organization in the strategic alliance for Educo2cean-Erasmus+ educational innovation, which it joined with the Climántica project, which was funded by the European Union. The campus was developed in two phases: a production phase held in Aveiro from 2 to 6 September and a phase of diffusion developed in Noia and the Muros Regional Area, acting the IES Virxe do mar…

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From 2 to 6 September, it was held at the center of scientific dissemination Ciencia Viva Sciences Factory and the University of Aveiro, the production part of the international youth international campus with its teaching seminar on research – action Educo2cean-Erasmus+, which was developed at the Factory of Ciencia Viva and the University of Aveiro. This initiative has been framed in the strategic alliance for Educo2cean-Erasmus+ educational innovation and good practices, elaborated…

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The project has just closed the selection phase of the participants on the international campus to be held in the towns of Aveiro and Noia. This initiative is part of the European Alliance for educational innovation EduCO2cean. Among the European participants are the two Iberian countries, which guarantee the different peninsular climate domains. The other participating countries are the partners of the European project, along with Mexico and Brazil. The contest was…

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Within the framework of the strategic alliance for innovation and good educational practices EduCO2cean-Erasmus +, designing from the methodological frame of the Climántica project, in consortium with the Cincia Viva Factory and the University of Aveiro and the SEPA-Interea Research Group University of Santiago de Compostela, we call for the process to select the students participating in the international Campus as well as their accompanying teachers, who will be part of the…

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The IES Virxe do Mar, within the framework of its responsibilities in EduCO2cean – Erasmus + has launched a scientific school research carried out by collaborating students toghether with scientists from Campus do Mar. This scientific-school pilot experience took place at the Testal beach in Noia, on Monday, March 27, 2017. It was led by the University of Vigo Zoology professor, and with the collaboration of the Confraternity of Shellfishers. With this…

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